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This project analysed the effects of accelerated loss of nutrients from a pine plantation site, looking at forest productivity and nutrient status. Over 16 years, at approximately six mont…
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Release Date: Sun, 27 November 2011 Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) is offering a number of opportunities to students to support their studies in the forest and wood products secto…
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Release Date: Tue, 12 July 2011 Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) is pleased to launch Forestlearning.edu.au, a dedicated portal for forests and wood products teaching and learnin…
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Updating forest inventories of P. radiata plantations can be very expensive, with traditional methods costing from $25 to $40 per hectare. However LiDAR (Airborne Laser Scanner) data comb…
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Selecting the best tree for any particular location or economic situation, whether that is for sawn timber or pulp, is the key goal of the TREEPLAN software. TREEPLAN is used for genetic evalu…
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Release Date: Thu, 23 June 2011 The new standards manager for Forest and Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA) is the well-known timber engineer, Boris Iskra. FWPA Managing Director, Ric S…
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Variable retention (VR) is a harvesting system, developed in the Pacific Northwest of USA and Canada, that is increasingly being used worldwide to achieve improved biodiversity and social…
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This report outlines and reviews the potential implications and exposure of the recent discovery in Australia of the exotic plant-disease Myrtle rust (Puccinia psidii). It also aims to pro…